Today’s Reading:
1 Corinthians 2
Psalm 91
“However, there is a wisdom that we continually speak of when we are among the spiritually mature. It’s wisdom that didn’t originate in this present age, nor did it come from the rulers of this age who are in the process of being dethroned. Instead, we continually speak of this wonderful wisdom that comes from God, hidden before now in a mystery. It is his secret plan, destined before the ages, to bring us into glory. None of the rulers of this present world order understood it, for if they had, they never would have crucified the Lord of shining glory. This is why the Scriptures say: Things never discovered or heard of before, things beyond our ability to imagine — these are the many things God has in store for all his lovers.”
1 Corinthians 2:6-9 TPT
The Spirit of the Living God says,
It’s time to kick in to the next gear and perhaps the one beyond that. It’s time to go into overdrive. The days of wait and respond are through. This is the time to deliver the first blow. This is the time to be in first position, to beat the enemy to the punch. This is the time for heavy-footed acceleration and a readiness to off-road. Your posture must be one of laid down surrender before Me alone and active, advancing, proactive driving and accelerating in all other spheres. You wait on Me, but you are proactive in all other spheres. You respond and live in reaction to the impulses of My Spirit, but you drive, you lead, you preempt everywhere else. On all fronts, you are to be accelerating, pushing, driving, leading.
“But God now unveils these profound realities to us by the Spirit. Yes, he has revealed to us his inmost heart and deepest mysteries through the Holy Spirit, who constantly explores all things.”
1 Corinthians 2:10 TPT
This is a time for the pioneers, those who are willing to go out in front, to go out ahead, to navigate off the well-traveled roads, off the grid, and then off the map. I’m leading you into uncharted territory. I Am taking you far off the roads and the terrain that you know. But I Am equipping you. I Am leading you. This season is marked by surrender, exploring and accelerating. This season will be led by those whose hearts of adventure and their yes to Me drives them far off of the grid, far out of the playing field and the world as they know it. This new terrain, this unexplored, virgin territory is unmarred by the trappings of the enemy. In the places you know, the places well-traveled, the enemy has set many traps and seems to own the field. If you win here, where the enemy has no preemption, where the enemy has no upper hand, no map, no understanding — then you win there. Take this place, conquer this unmarred territory, and the land you know will be won by default. I’m setting up an alternative playing field. No one knows the terrain, the places, the climate. No one seems to have the upper hand, but those guided by My Spirit will navigate it seamlessly.
“For we did not receive the spirit of this world system but the Spirit of God, so that we might come to understand and experience all that grace has lavished upon us. And we articulate these realities with the words imparted to us by the Spirit and not with the words taught by human wisdom. We join together Spirit-revealed truths with Spirit-revealed words. Someone living on an entirely human level rejects the revelations of God’s Spirit, for they make no sense to him. He can’t understand the revelations of the Spirit because they are only discovered by the illumination of the Spirit. Those who live in the Spirit are able to carefully evaluate all things, and they are subject to the scrutiny of no one but God.”
1 Corinthians 2:12-15 TPT
This is My strategy for the war you are facing. I’m moving the battlefield into uncharted terrain, where those who hear My voice always have the upper hand and no traps have been set here by the enemy. Those with the enemy may scurry around set them up now, but he has not had years and decades or longer to plant any traps. The traps he plants here are ramshackle and faulty. They will fail, and they will be easy to perceive and navigate around. This is a season of hard charging. This is a season to lie down only in surrender to Me. Your posture in every other sphere must be alert, preemption, proactivity, hard charging, driving, leading and accelerating. Get accustomed to being in unknown territory. That’s the landscape and the terrain for the next phase of this battle. I’ve equipped you to win. I’ve equipped you for victory. The word is go. The word is drive.
How to Respond
- Put your ear on the Lord’s chest, close to His heart. Surrender fully to His ways, His plan, His voice. Then pick up your assignment and go. Stay in a posture of surrender only to Him.
- Pray, Holy Spirit come. Help me to pry my hands open on those last remaining things which I seek to own, hold onto and control. You can have them all Lord. Your ways are higher. Your plans are better. Your thoughts are greater. You can do more with the little I’m holding on to than I ever could. You can have it Lord. I want to live in full surrender and submission to You, so I can hear You clearly, see the vision clearly and drive with abandon. You are taking us into uncharted territory, and we need to be held back by nothing, so we can navigate this place with Your advantage. Thank You Lord for always giving us the upper hand in You.
- Declare, the times and seasons belong to the Lord. The Earth is the Lord’s and the fullness thereof. The enemy does not have the upper hand. Those with the Lord will always have the upper hand. The Lord is moving us into uncharted territory, and when we win in this unfamiliar place, we will also win in the familiar places that the enemy seems to have overrun.
- Decree, I will live in full surrender to the Lord alone. In every other sphere of life, I will advance, lead, charge and drive. I will not be in a reactive posture. I will be in a posture of preemption and proactivity for all of the assignments the Lord has given me. In the Lord, I always have the upper hand.
For more encouragement from Glory & the New Wine, check out the post from this day in years past:
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